Veterans, what stresses you out the most about trucking?

1. The smell of pee, body oder etc etc at truck stops.
2. Sitting forever and a day to get loaded or unloaded.
3. Current FMCSA and probably upcoming rules that do nothing but make more work for us.
4. Idiots in cars who you have to watch out for. I swear some people do things intentionally so they can sue.
5. I65 in Indiana. When ever I have to take that interstate I plan for a breakdown since those pot holes are the size of lakes.
6.Hills. The ones I'm not used to make me a little nervous when I know I have to go down 1.
7. Idiots who drive like certified crash dummies.

I can't think of any more at the moment.

 

Thinking of what the FUTURE holds in getting future drivers / contracts / how more screwed up can the REGULATIONS make equipment along with All the ABOVE posts

 

Drivers that complain all the time.

 

Management that do not listen to COMPLAING DRIVERS

 

the dumbing down of the american trucker. we have drivers out there running down the road with 80,000 lbs that dont have any idea what they are doing. it is getting so bad now drivers have to have automatic transmissions in order to get the truck down the road. go to school learn as much as you can,and hope you get a trainer that knows something about trucking. lots of luck in your new choice of employment

 

Deception is
[h=2]what stresses me out[/h]you will have to read the fine print "if available" every single time you deal with trucking issues from A to Z from the time you learn how to drive until the day you give it up

 

a late thought its not the big whopping lies from dispatch that bother you, its those little bittie ones dispatch thinks they get away with. and most drivers quit over the small things not the big things.

 

This...

Im starting to sound like a recruiter, so Ill leave my company out of this, but Im trying to move to another company, and there are a lot of companies living in the stone age. I walk in and Im thinking to myself, how the hell have they not taken care of this already?

And companies that think they can threaten drivers with retarded rules. Like threatening to write you up for idling. If you limit us to 50% idle and only run us an average of 7 hours a day, that means we cant even take a 10 hour break with the idle you allow us. No thank you, Ill go to somewhere that doesnt have impossible rules and regulations.

Taking pay away... that plain illegal unless you steal something. The law clearly states that even if you steal, your wages are not to be reduced below minimum wage by the deductions...
But to take money because you had some dirty clothes on the floor, or you dropped your coke on the way into the terminal... what the hell man?

And my favorite, treating small infractions like they are as bad as felonies. If a company has lists of things that will get you fired, they arent a good company. Not just because thats insane, but because other drivers can get you fired... Ive seen people stage pictures inside their own truck and turn it in as someone elses truck. So ya, any company that has mandatory firing for little thing, is not worth you time.

Im in an area with terrible unemployment, we dont even have any big stores or anything, and there are 5 job listings a day for local jobs. And people think they can treat drivers like prisoners?

Not me they wont.

 

New drivers who seem to think that they have a right to drive a truck. These are the ones who complain about drug tests, that they know how to handle a truck because they went through some 200 hours of training but most of all arrogant enough to think they are good drivers to begin with.

 

Yes I had an APPLICANT last week who took it as an offence that I did not hire him on the spot and put him in a BRAND NEW truck pulling a BRAND NEW trailer .

His employment record for 3 years looked like a whos / who in trucking ( excuse for leaving every place was not HIS fault ) and a non too clean driving record.